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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Portability should be the default.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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